New Projects for 2019 ??

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

The weather is not looking that promising yet for floating a boat, what projects are planned for this year ?? Some of our favorite forum's members have have gone to ground ! Where are you Banjoman ?

Regards Ray

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

New Projects for 2019 ??

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Ray, yes where are they? They should “out” their projects just like I do.

Ashley

[David Marks 2Participant @davidmarks2]

I would like to respond to this thread, but for some reason I am having trouble with Cut & Paste. Always used this method before without any trouble. Have the site settings been changed?

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

David,

As far as I'm aware there have been no changes to the site. Cut and paste has always worked with text but was never intended to be used with images for which the album facility or a link is necessary.

Usually when things appear to change it is down to the device being used by the Forum member. If this has changed or its software updated then it can cause problems. A lot of organisations are experiencing problems with making their sites run on all the different devices in use today. It's called progress I believe!

Colin

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Ashley,

Yes where are they ? Batteries charged last night, blowing an absolute hooley down here in Kent, been busy chasing the garden furniture round 😀

London looks great by the way.

Regards Ray

[David Marks 2Participant @davidmarks2]

I am currently nearing the completion of Plaudit. This is a David Metcalf design of the Port of London Authority (PLA) tug of the same name. The PLA had a wide variety of tugs, mostly with names starting with the letters PLA. To be honest it will be a version of Plaudit, as I used the vacuum moulded hull which is still available (1:20 scale), but had to change the size/shape of the superstructure to accommodate all the electronic kit. As all the PLA tugs were sold off years ago and have had a variety of owners, often with a change of superstructure, my model will be called Plaxtol (which is a village in Kent). I have yet to decide a livery, but as Plaudit was at one time in the ownership of construction company BAM Nuttall and in their distinctive green/orange livery, then that is one option. Once Plaudit/Plaxtol is complete, my next project will be a catamaran workboat. There have been a number of very good kit reviews of this type of vessel within MB but mine with be based on that presented by Dave Brumstread in MB January/February 2013. As I like to scratch build, I have obtained a set of drawings for Searcher by James Pottinger. This is a catamaran lobster boat in 1:24 scale, but I have already had the drawings stretched to 1:16 scale and the model will be a workboat, based on the Dave Brumstead kit review.

[David Marks 2Participant @davidmarks2]

Colin – Thanks for the response and help . Yes, C&P now requires the use of Ctl + V. As it is blowing a gale outside, I will try and add some images of my near complete Plaudit/Plaxtol.

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

I have had several weeks off doing any serious modelling while some minor house improbements and redecorations took priority but now getting back into my liner model. The main hull is pretty much complete except for fittings and I am now working on the superstructure. Due to its 'shade deck' nature it is something of a three dimensional jigsaw to work out how to construct it and in what order the parts will need to go together. I have a decent set of drawings and photos but not everything is obvious and there is quite a bit of headscratching involved in getting it all right.

Last week I managed to get hold of a copy of the August 1963 issue of Model Maker in which the 1:1200 R. Carpenter drawing appeared. I already have a much faded dyeline 1:600 print but the Carpenter drawing (below) does help in clarifying how all the elements of the ship fit together.

Looking at my file, I first started researching the ship in 1974…

Colin

[Tim RoweParticipant @timrowe83142]

Good question Ray

I say it every year but I really am going to try to use my models more. Boats and aircraft.

Learn how to program my transmitters.

As for starting a new project it will have to be Wild Duck (thank you) but not sure if it will be full size for sailing or 1/2 size for display. I live in a flat so space is always at a premium until I crash a few more planes!

The idea of designing something is beginning to grow.

Tim R

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Ray, new projects, I need to finish some of the current ones first! Of those it will probably be the River Cruiser and the Huntsman 28 that get finished first. The Swordsman 33, though started first has become a longer term project (not too long I hope!) due to me going to plank the deck and rear cabin roof.

You know about the Fisherman 27 but in addition to that I'm going to build a Huntsman 31 and at some time the Spearfish kit I picked up.

Trouble is I've got to get back into the DIY and finish off the bedrooms etc. and I've vowed to use my motorbikes more this year. I also want to spend more time on photography etc.

Good news is that it's only 4 weeks until retirement now!

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Chris

Go with the flow, I'm happy to run several projects together, once you have finished one your power boats do you have a local club ??

Regards Ray

Edited By Ray Wood 2 on 10/03/2019 21:35:45

[Tony HadleyParticipant @tonyhadley]

First project for 2019 is to put the finishing touches to Vic Smeed's cabin cruiser design 'Lorena'. This is half size balsa 'kitchen table' build which needs about two or three months more work. The model had successful bath test and now needs the cabin finishing, mast, deck/cabin fittings and a stand.

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

That's nice Tony.

Colin

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

Hello Ray,

And thank you very much for asking! I'm still around in the general sense of the term, and (other than a couple of colds recently) in excellent health and state of mind, but have been otherwise much occupied in various ways since last autumn. Among other things, my wife and I went to Australia over the end-of-year holidays and for most of January, but more detrimental to model boating has been me going off on a woodworking tangent of late.

It all started with a need in our kitchen for something that would facilitate consistently placing the kitchen table in the desired spot under the lamp (as we're renting, moving the fixture was not an option) while also providing some storage space for the odds and sods that would otherwise tend to clutter up said table; the result was a made-to-measure set of shelves of my own design that one can see here between the table and the half wall:

I then got it into my head to sort out a (non-)problem which I've wanted to address for quite some time, namely to have a Stephenson screen in the garden to house the outdoor temperature/humidity sensors and rain gauge for our two (one older Oregon-type one, and a more recent Netatmo on-line capable system) weather stations:

I am not in any way, shape or form an amateur meteorologist, but I have been getting more and more fed up with having to guesstimate the temperature measuring error that one inevitably gets when the sensors are set up too close to a building. I don't care if it is currently 6.4 degrees in our garden, as the Netatmo app tells me it is, or actually 6.2 or 6.7, but I don't want to have to deduct +/- so many degrees from a reading of somewhere between 8 and 10, which is what I would probably have gotten before, when the sensor was strapped to a drainpipe next to the house …

Both these projects are now finished, but while working on them last autumn I also took a ten week (and 30 hour total, I should perhaps add; not ten weeks full time) course on hand tool woodworking (the bench in the foreground with a plank being edge-planed was mine) …

… and got bitten pretty badly by that particular bug; so badly, in fact, that on Saturday, my wife and I will be driving up to Arnhem in The Netherlands where I shall spend a small fortune on hand planes and suchlike at a place called Baptist, and also visit the Arnhemse Fijnhouthandel ("Arnhem Fine Woods Shop" ) for a first recce. We will then spend the rest of the weekend plus the Monday doing more touristy stuff, including going on to see respectively the David Hockney (at the Van Gogh museum) and the All the Rembrandts (at the Rijksmuseum) exhibitions in Amsterdam; just the tool and wood stores would not likely have lured my wife along … 

This does most emphatically not mean that I have abandoned model boating! It is just that I have given short term priority to spending available time and money getting properly started on full size woodworking. Once that dust has settled, though, my next model boat project will be a 1/16 Fairey Huntsman from Dave Milbourn's plans! Oh, and I shall also have to do some minor restoration work to the hull paint work of my Moonbeam, which got a bit scratched against the pond shoreline when I took it out in an a tad too strong wind back in autumn …

Again, many thanks for asking after me, and all the very best!

Cheers,

Mattias

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[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Mattias

A word of warning – if you see David Hockney getting into a lift while you're in Amsterdam then best take the stairs… **LINK**

Dave M

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

Posted by Ray Wood 2 on 10/03/2019 21:34:55:

Hi Chris

Go with the flow, I'm happy to run several projects together, once you have finished one your power boats do you have a local club ??

Regards Ray

Edited By Ray Wood 2 on 10/03/2019 21:35:45

Hi Ray – yes, I've been a member of Knightcote, near Southam, about 30 mins away for a couple of years. Only been a handful of times though and when I do I sail my HydroPro Affinity 650mm yacht. Good job I only had to rig it and not build it! That was the reason for going down that route. Neighbour has one as do some of the guys at the club along with Dragonforce 65s. I miss the racing as it's on a Thursday when I'm working.

Whilst generally I'm fine having a number of things on the go once I start on the DIY it takes over and has to get done. I've got some breathing space at the moment as the youngest son is back from China for a little longer yet and he's using the room that needs doing – skirting boards, architraves and decorating etc.

Chris

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

Dave,

Oops! Well, forewarned is forearmed, eh wot wot … ?!

Mattias

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi Mattias

Are these planes of any use to you? Made in the 1920's by my wife's grandfather whilst a shipwright at Chatham Dockyard. They are 450 mm & 530 long I will never use them, if you would like them PM me your address.

Regards Ray

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

Hello Ray,

That is so kind and generous an offer that I hardly know what to say! I am of course sorely tempted to just say yes, please, thank you very much, and PM you my address, but before I could square with my conscience taking what in essence are family mementoes, if not heirlooms, from you and yours, I would want to be sure of a complete mutual understanding and agreement betwen us on what sort of new life they would be likely to lead in my hands.

In other words, I will PM you my e-mail address, so that we can talk things through properly first

Again, my warmest thanks for your very, very kind and generous offer!

Mattias

[Eddie LancasterParticipant @eddielancaster]

Hi. Ray, As you know I am building Cambria, I have got the frame work finished, waiting to be planked, I am making all the metal fittings needed at the moment before I start the planking, some of these fittings can only be fitted at this early stage and the others will then be ready when required.

I am also making a speed boat for my grandson, it's in the paint shop at the moment.

I have also come to realise you need a boat for every set of weather conditions, ie. no wind, medium wind speed and near gale force wind! so have started on the James P. Woods tug. for the latter.

As I am at Broadstairs this week I have already called in at MFA Como Drills at Worth for the geared drive unit,and have started to order electronic parts to make a steam generator for it.

I like the look of those planes, I bet the blades are excellent at maintaining a razor sharp edge.

I have had a few sailing sessions with Susie May and am now getting used to her, making a couple of minor adjustments to the sails and sheeting, club members are telling me she is fast, time will tell!

Only ships a drop of water even when it's over the rails and halfway up the hatch sides, I am really pleased with her.

Regards.

Eddie.

Edited By Eddie Lancaster on 13/03/2019 16:10:55

[Roger ClarkParticipant @rogerclark]

" so have started on the James P. Woods tug. for the latter."

Hi Eddie, so that's 2 of us starting on this build, any more builders?

Regards

Roger

Edited By Roger Clark 1 on 22/03/2019 21:53:38

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

banjoman, did your woodwork tutor never tell you not to leave your plane sole to table……and steel particles such as nails etc driven into the bench by 'orrible little kids before you, will scar the sole of the plane………..and if using old boxwood planes, irreparable damage to the wooden soul…………

always leave a plane on its side……………as a woodwork teacher and tutor, for 25 years…….my absolute pet hate…………..except for sharpening chisels on a motorised grinder………argghhhh.

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

Neil,

No. On the contrary, we were specifically asked by the the chap running that course (and whose benches and planes it were) not to lay the planes on their sides, but to put them down on their soles.

His reasoning was that the risk of damage was higher if the planes lay on their sides, as that exposed the soles to dings from whatever else might be or be put on the bench, and which might be pushed against them by accident. He said that in his view the window for accidental damage with sole-to-table (essentially) only occurs during the short act of putting the plane down (and we were firmly asked to pay good attention when doing so), while resting a plane on its side leaves the sole exposed for the duration of the time it is left on the bench.

Given that it was all his stuff, we of course followed his instructions.

Mattias

Edited By Banjoman on 26/03/2019 13:44:50

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

It's a while since we kicked this thread off 😀 somebody out there in Model boat land must want to share their latest build ?

Regards Ray (looking forward to some boating this long weekend)

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